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Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, on March 25, 2023.

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday night in Detroit.

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Michigan is the first state in decades to end 'right to work.' Why it shouldn't be the last.

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks about the proposed "Parents Bill of Rights" at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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The GOP just passed a blueprint for bullying teachers

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Matthew Evan Corcoran, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman U. S. District Court House on March 24, 2023, in Washington.

ACHILLES HEEL

Another Trump lawyer may crack the former president's 'Teflon' armor

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Jane Widdop as Laura Lee, Alexa Barajas Plante as Mari, Mya Lowe as Yellowjacket #1, Courtney Eaton as Lottie, Sophie Thatcher as Natalie, Princess Davis as Yellowjackets #2 and Sophie Nélisse as Shauna in "Yellowjackets."

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Dallas in 2019.

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Trump's eerily symbolic Waco rally shows he isn’t even pretending anymore

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FILE - Gay Ugandan refugees who fled from their country to neighbouring Kenya, return after shopping for food in Nairobi, Kenya on June 11, 2020. Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday, March 21, 2023 prescribing jail terms of up to 10 years for offenses related to same-sex relations, responding to popular sentiment but piling more pressure on the East African country's LGBTQ community.

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American church leaders had a direct hand in Uganda’s new and horrible anti-LGBTQ bill

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead off the final lap to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala., in 1965 as thousands of civil rights marchers joined in the walk to demand voter registration rights.

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Why Lowndes County matters in post-Trump America

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Christina Applegate and Candace Owens.

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Candace Owens-Christina Applegate feud speaks volumes about the GOP's perceived 'threats'

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The problems posed by TikTok are a sign of a bigger problem in our society

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Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., in Dirksen Building on March 15, 2023.

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Kyrsten Sinema is about to go from independent to isolated

Jason Reynolds at the Lit.Cologne literature festival in Cologne, Germany

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Jason Reynolds' ode to dreamers is a must-read for America's students

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Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry in her apartment on Bleecker Street in April, 1959 in New York.

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Why Lorraine Hansberry was fed up with white, liberal views on activism

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Kiese Laymon at a book signing in Coral Gables, Fla.

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The heaviness of Kiese Laymon

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Author Jerry Craft

Jerry Craft's cartoons are nightmare fuel for some conservatives

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Isabel Wilkerson in Boston in 2010.

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Why right-wingers want Isabel Wilkerson's work removed from bookshelves

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Ibram X. Kendi, director of Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research, in Boston on Oct. 21, 2020.

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How Ibram X. Kendi unmasked fake 'patriots' in the GOP

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Mikki Kendall destroys the idea of 'fast' girls

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Nikole Hannah-Jones at her home in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 24, 2023.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones took GOPers to school

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Ralph Ellison In Harlem

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Ralph Ellison's vision of an all-white USA hits Republicans where it hurts

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Author Zora Neale Hurston at a book fair, New York, around 1937.

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The GOP's assault on Zora Neale Hurston's work is deeply ironic

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Maya Angelou in 1992

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Maya Angelou issued a warning to conservatives banning books — decades in advance

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Richard Wright

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The GOP is wrong about Richard Wright

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Portrait of James Baldwin

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James Baldwin and the threat of 'Black English'

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Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison exposed the 'unspeakable things' conservatives want hidden

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Alice Walker attends the "The Color Purple" Broadway Opening Night at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York City

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Alice Walker rejects the GOP's view for women

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates has conservatives in a frenzy

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Why DeSantis wants bell hooks' work banned

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Kimberle Crenshaw

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Republicans want to censor Kimberlé Crenshaw. Here’s why.

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